Name: Badge Personal LJ:dragomorph Contact Info: AIM: dragomorph e-mail: bodgerkirin@hotmail.com Character Name: Kotetsu T. Kaburagi Character Series:Tiger & Bunny (http://tigerbunny.wikia.com/wiki/Tiger_%26_Bunny_Wiki) Background:Here. (http://tigerbunny.wikia.com/wiki/Wild_Tiger) Canon point is between episodes 13 and 14. Personality: Take your standard shounen hero. Now age him up to just shy of middle age. That would be Kotetsu, in a nutshell. He's the sort of guy you could have seen talking about burning spirit and true justice and not batted an eye to it when he was, say, fifteen or so. At his age, however, it comes off as hopelessly dorky, if perhaps endearing to the right sort. The thing is, he speaks of things like justice and protecting others with such a zeal because that's honestly what he believes in. To Kotetsu, the protection of human life -- even the lives of those who are otherwise villainous -- comes before anything else. And nothing -- no one person, no one thing, no one BUILDING -- is going to stop him.
Naturally, this can be kind of problematic. He's impulsive, prefering to act before he thinks and relying mostly on gut instinct. Which is all well and good, but often results in the destruction of a LOT of valuable property in the process. This drives the bean-counters back home up a wall, especially since it's OBVIOUS Kotetsu deprioritizes financial costs over human ones. Furthermore, his impulsiveness means he often blunders into situations, occasionally making them worse. It gets the job DONE, but with all the subtlety of a semitruck.
That said, Kotetsu isn't DUMB, per se. Give him enough leads and enough time and he can be remarkably brilliant. It's just that he's a fantastically lazy thinker, preferring to solve situations with his fists first before actually applying his brain to anything. This at least allows him a rather laid-back approach towards life when he's not doing something serious; when he's not running around saving the day, he can be pretty friendly, if rather immature in attitude, and he's always willing to give advice to people as a veteran of the hero business.
Which brings up one of the most fundamental aspects of Kotetsu's character: He puts everybody else before himself. This manifests itself in admirable ways, his heroic work being prime among them. But it also means he often hides it when things are going poorly for himself, and his attempts to try and conceal things so that others don't worry about him can end up appearing selfish and untrusting even before the gig is inevitably up. But because he's so concerned for others, people tend to trust him, and maybe even -- if they've spent enough time with him -- believe that there's some truth to this whole "justice and the sanctity of life" malarky after all.
Note that, while he TRIES not to make it obvious that he likes getting praised for what he does -- that's just not what a hero should care about, after all -- it's pretty obvious that not getting his fair share of credit stings. His FIRST priority is always saving people and delivering justice -- but his second priority is looking cool while he does it. That's why he fell in love with heroes, after all.
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Character Name: Kotetsu T. Kaburagi
Character Series: Tiger & Bunny (http://tigerbunny.wikia.com/wiki/Tiger_%26_Bunny_Wiki)
Background: Here. (http://tigerbunny.wikia.com/wiki/Wild_Tiger) Canon point is between episodes 13 and 14.
Personality: Take your standard shounen hero. Now age him up to just shy of middle age. That would be Kotetsu, in a nutshell. He's the sort of guy you could have seen talking about burning spirit and true justice and not batted an eye to it when he was, say, fifteen or so. At his age, however, it comes off as hopelessly dorky, if perhaps endearing to the right sort. The thing is, he speaks of things like justice and protecting others with such a zeal because that's honestly what he believes in. To Kotetsu, the protection of human life -- even the lives of those who are otherwise villainous -- comes before anything else. And nothing -- no one person, no one thing, no one BUILDING -- is going to stop him.
Naturally, this can be kind of problematic. He's impulsive, prefering to act before he thinks and relying mostly on gut instinct. Which is all well and good, but often results in the destruction of a LOT of valuable property in the process. This drives the bean-counters back home up a wall, especially since it's OBVIOUS Kotetsu deprioritizes financial costs over human ones. Furthermore, his impulsiveness means he often blunders into situations, occasionally making them worse. It gets the job DONE, but with all the subtlety of a semitruck.
That said, Kotetsu isn't DUMB, per se. Give him enough leads and enough time and he can be remarkably brilliant. It's just that he's a fantastically lazy thinker, preferring to solve situations with his fists first before actually applying his brain to anything. This at least allows him a rather laid-back approach towards life when he's not doing something serious; when he's not running around saving the day, he can be pretty friendly, if rather immature in attitude, and he's always willing to give advice to people as a veteran of the hero business.
Which brings up one of the most fundamental aspects of Kotetsu's character: He puts everybody else before himself. This manifests itself in admirable ways, his heroic work being prime among them. But it also means he often hides it when things are going poorly for himself, and his attempts to try and conceal things so that others don't worry about him can end up appearing selfish and untrusting even before the gig is inevitably up. But because he's so concerned for others, people tend to trust him, and maybe even -- if they've spent enough time with him -- believe that there's some truth to this whole "justice and the sanctity of life" malarky after all.
Note that, while he TRIES not to make it obvious that he likes getting praised for what he does -- that's just not what a hero should care about, after all -- it's pretty obvious that not getting his fair share of credit stings. His FIRST priority is always saving people and delivering justice -- but his second priority is looking cool while he does it. That's why he fell in love with heroes, after all.
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